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At the luncheon which followed the Iaunch Mr. Lawrence Holt said the purpose LABOUR MEMBERS AND THE KING. of the new vessal was to link up Glasgow and Birkenhead with the Straits Settlements [rzov oUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.}
and Chins through the Suez Canal. They had boon linking up those parts most suc EDINBURGH, March 21st. cessfully for many years for cargo-carrying The 23 Scottish Labour members of purposes. They now felt it their duty to provide also for the conveyance and comfort Parliament most of them hailing from of their fellow-countrymen who had to live Clydeside, who have issued a repadiation in these regions, and those whose business of the statement that Mr. Ramsay Maccarried them thither in promoting the traile Donald had their approval when he of the country. The four boats of the new scepted the King's invitation to dine at class were to maintain a monthly service Buckingham Palace, have done up good and he was confident that they would fulfil either to themselves or to their party. their mission very well. They were not Their declaration is all the more surprisintended to compete with the older passen- ing in view of their insistence' that their party should be recognised as the oficial Parliamentary Opposition. They take His Majesty's first formal, recognition of that claim as the occasion for a churlish com ment, which, in so far as it has any effect, can only cast discredit upon them- :selves and impair the standing of Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. It is worth noting that, with two exceptioins, the signatories are now to the House of Com mous, and therefore nazcquainted with the social amenities which, it has been the peculiar and happy distinction of British public life to maintain, in spite of party ferences, The more experienced and responsible Scottish Labour fembers have THE DUKE OF YORK'S XQUERRY. not added their names to the document. It Wing Commander Louis L. Greig, who is curious that those who pride themselves acted an equerry to the Duke of York at on the Holding of advanced views should the Rugby match in Edinburgh between revert to a furtive republicanism which has England and Scotland. has played in five been out of fashion for over half a century, international garnes in all, including that The assurance that the signatories will not in 1905 against the "Springboks." He captained the Scottish side. Eis first inter- the obvious comment that they would have national, against the "All Blacks" in 1905, been better to wait till they were asked, aw each side on that occasion with seven The phrasing of the manifesto is in had forwards, the extra player behind the scrum taste, plutocratic dinner parties" are being given a roving commission, This coupled with invitations to dine at
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Even the late Mr. Keir Hardie, who was the representative of the straightest soct. of Socialista, and whom the Glasgow Labour scezTISH AND THE MILITARY TOURNAMENT." members regard as their patron saint, was The Royal Tournament at Olympia, leas narrow-minded ia his attitude. I be London, is to be of an exceptionally pic- lieve that he went to a garden partyturesque and attractive kind.
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at Buckingham Palace, and had a long pageant will bure some such tile as conversation with King Edward. Hu, Scotland the Brave." It will show the like the King, had had an attack evolution of all our Scottish regiments of appendictis, and. their common from the time of our early forefathers and ailment formed a natural subject of con- there will be literally "A linndred pipers versation. Afterwards the King was and a'." congratulated by a courtier on the tact he had displayed in talking to the Labour leader, but the congratulations were not well received. "I am the father of all my handicaps and with it the conditions for people," said King Edward with emphasis, the Amateur Championship will set the and the suggestion that he had been talking minds of intending competitors at rest! in friendly fashion to Mr. Keir Hardie from as to where they stand. The limit
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handicap for entry is five, which with the backmarkers at scratch is probably a little THE PACIFIC, JAPAN AND THE CLYDE.
more generous than the "old scratch or If the negotiations which have been in better qualifications. The conditions for progress for some time past between the the Championship are otherwise similar to Japanese Government and the. Nippon those of a year ago. The Committee direct Yusen Kaisha, their biggest stentship attention to the new amateur definition THE into force this year and TRE company, come to a satisfactory conclusion, which the Clyde" shipyards stand to gain. If which detara. from entry any player they can get a big enough subsidy or who because of his skill at the guine," guarantee, the Company propose to build & has received after. December 31st last Heet of 23,000-ton liners, with a speed of at a salary or remuneration, either directly 6mm dealing letat eighteen knots, to run against the or indirectly, from any Empress of Canada and her consorts in goods relating to the playing of Such ships would be much bigger than the game. Will it, one wonders, find itself AUTHORISED CAFITAL...$1,000,000,00 anything the Japanese have yet attempted in operation? The lists of the national to construct" in their own yards, and handicaps will doubtless be scrutinised although the Mitsubishi establishment closely by the players concerned. There could do the work experience bas taught the are anomalies in the ratings. There are Japanese that it is wiser to get the first men, for instance, put at three, great match- unit of a radically new class built abroad, fighters who only in the last Prestwick and then put into play their capacity for Championship had some of the biggest men copying and adapting detail. The Clyde struggling for their lives, and grouped with would no doubt welcome such an order on them, or even placed behind them, are men Japanese account, and even if it does not who are either back numbers or men of materialise it is probable that the Canadian whom you have never beard. There must be Pacific would embark on a building pro- many comparisons made these days between gramme to maintain her present pre-eminent individual players in the different groups. position in the Pacific.
Plenty of three handicap men would doubt- less be willing to take on some of those in the groups with shorter handicaps. But the test of whether or nots particular handicap is right is a man's willingaces to play either of the three who bare teen placed at scratch. On the whole current form as beca fairly accurately rated, and at any rate a long step forward has been made in com- parison with the old haphazard method of taking acratch as a basis when the term meant three or four totally different things in as many parts of the country.
THE PASSING OF STEAM,
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The Salzer-engined vessel which the Fair- ~Another super-golf scheme is to be pro- feld Company, of Govan, are building and ceeded with in Scotland: a' syndicate has engining for the Union Steamship been formed to make a new course at Luaan Company, of New Zealand, will be about Bay, Montrose. Few now-a-days affect to the rame size and aggregate horse power, despise the accompaniment of the beautiful but in her case the power will be distribut in golf, as crystalised in the saving of a ed over four, shafts, so that the Gothen-famous Scottish professional--“ D--the burgh departure is of a very important scenery; whaur'e the first tee?" The character and one which will go far to en- game thrives best amidst picturesque able internal combustion engines to wholly surroundings, and it is the wisest course to supersede steam engines of all kinds in the ally golfing attractions with the beautiful. propulsion of the largest and fastest vessels.
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